| 上 | [じょう, jou] (n, adj-no, n-adv, n-suf) (1) above; up; over; elder (e.g. daughter); (2) top; summit; (3) surface; on; (4) before; previous; (5) superiority; one's superior (i.e. one's elder); (6) on top of that; besides; what's more; (7) upon (further inspection, etc.); based on (and occurring after); (8) matters concerning...; as concerns ...; (9) (as ...上は) since (i.e. "for that reason"); (n-suf) (10) (hon) (See 父上) suffix indicating higher social standing; (11) (arch) place of one's superior (i.e. the throne); (12) (arch) emperor; sovereign; shogun; daimyo; (13) (arch) noblewoman (esp. the wife of a nobleman); (P) #111 [Add to Longdo] |
| 将軍 | [しょうぐん, shougun] (n) general; shogun; (P) #1,913 [Add to Longdo] |
| 幕府 | [ばくふ, bakufu] (n) bakufu; shogunate; (P) #2,129 [Add to Longdo] |
| 幕末 | [ばくまつ, bakumatsu] (n) closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate; end of Edo era; (P) #4,617 [Add to Longdo] |
| 奉行 | [ぶぎょう, bugyou] (n, vs) magistrate; shogunate administrator; (P) #5,607 [Add to Longdo] |
| 天下 | [てんか(P);てんが;てんげ, tenka (P); tenga ; tenge] (n) (1) the whole world; (2) the whole country; (3) society; the public; (4) supremacy over a nation; government of a country; the ruling power; (5) having one's own way; doing as one pleases; (adj-no) (6) peerless; incomparable; superlative; world-famous; (n) (7) (arch) shogun (Edo period); (P) #6,631 [Add to Longdo] |
| 旗本 | [はたもと, hatamoto] (n) shogunal vassal; direct retainer of a shogun #7,777 [Add to Longdo] |
| 定番 | [ていばん, teiban] (n, vs) (1) standing guard; watchman; (n) (2) watchman at the shogun's palaces (Edo period) #12,595 [Add to Longdo] |
| 大奥 | [おおおく, oooku] (n) (See 江戸城) inner palace (in Edo Castle); palace's ladies chambers; shogun's harem #13,456 [Add to Longdo] |
| 戊辰戦争 | [ぼしんせんそう, boshinsensou] (n) Boshin War (Japanese civil war between Imperial and shogunate forces, 1868-1869) #16,984 [Add to Longdo] |
| 老中 | [ろうじゅう;ろうぢゅう, roujuu ; roudyuu] (n) member of shogun's council of elders #17,038 [Add to Longdo] |
| 江戸城 | [えどじょう, edojou] (n) Edo Castle (residence of the Shogun during the Edo period, now the site of the Tokyo Imperial Palace) #17,723 [Add to Longdo] |
| 公方 | [くぼう, kubou] (n) public affairs; the court; the shogun; the shogunate #17,724 [Add to Longdo] |
| 将軍家 | [しょうぐんけ, shougunke] (n) family positioned to accede to the shogunate #18,083 [Add to Longdo] |
| お蔵;お倉;御蔵;御倉 | [おくら;オクラ, okura ; okura] (n) (1) (See 蔵・くら) shelving (a play, movie, etc.); closing down; cancelling; canceling; the shelf; (2) rice storehouse of the Edo shogunate [Add to Longdo] |
| お膝元;お膝下;お膝許;御膝元;御膝下;御膝許;おひざ元 | [おひざもと, ohizamoto] (n) (See 膝元・ひざもと・3) home territory of a powerful figure; Imperial Court; businessman's turf; Shogun's headquarters [Add to Longdo] |
| お墨付き;御墨付き | [おすみつき, osumitsuki] (n) (1) (See 墨付き) handwriting; autograph; authorization; authorisation; (2) certificate; certified document; paper with signature of the shogun or lord [Add to Longdo] |
| ばらつき | [baratsuki] (n) (Orig. 薔薇搗き rose petals scattered before shoguns marching in triumph) scattering (e.g. in statistics); a scatter; dispersion [Add to Longdo] |
| 愛妾 | [あいしょう, aishou] (n) (See めかけ) beloved concubine; favourite concubine (e.g. of the shogun) [Add to Longdo] |
| 闇将軍 | [やみしょうぐん, yamishougun] (n) behind-the-scenes fixer; éminence grise; kingmaker; wire-puller; (lit) shadow shogun [Add to Longdo] |
| 異人館 | [いじんかん, ijinkan] (n) Western style residences built mostly for early foreign settlers during the end of the Shogunate and the Meiji era [Add to Longdo] |
| 移封 | [いほう, ihou] (n, vs) forced relocation of a daimyo to a different domain by the Edo shogunate [Add to Longdo] |
| 一国一城 | [いっこくいちじょう, ikkokuichijou] (n) (1) (possession of) one feudal domain and one castle; being independent (acting without compromise or assistance); (2) establishing only one castle in each feudal domain (edict issued by the shogunate in 1615) [Add to Longdo] |
| 王朝時代 | [おうちょうじだい, ouchoujidai] (n) (See 武家時代) Dynastic period (the Nara period and esp. the Heian period, characterized by the rule of the emperor as opposed to shogunate) [Add to Longdo] |
| 開成所 | [かいせいじょ, kaiseijo] (n) Kaiseijo (school of foreign studies set up by the shogunate during the Edo period) [Add to Longdo] |
| 鎌倉幕府 | [かまくらばくふ, kamakurabakufu] (n) Kamakura shogunate (1185-1333 CE) [Add to Longdo] |
| 官寺 | [かんじ, kanji] (n) state-sponsored temples, particularly those favored and protected by the shogunate during the Kamakura period [Add to Longdo] |
| 旗本八万騎 | [はたもとはちまんき, hatamotohachimanki] (n) (arch) (See 旗本・はたもと) the shogun's eighty thousand guards, comprising hatamoto and lower-ranking vassals [Add to Longdo] |
| 旧幕 | [きゅうばく, kyuubaku] (n) the old feudal government; shogunate [Add to Longdo] |
| 旧幕時代 | [きゅうばくじだい, kyuubakujidai] (n) the shogunate period; the days of the shogunate regime [Add to Longdo] |
| 君沢形 | [きみさわがた, kimisawagata] (n) schooner style ship built at the end of the Shogunate [Add to Longdo] |
| 吾妻鏡;東鑑 | [あずまかがみ;あづまかがみ, azumakagami ; adumakagami] (n) Japanese medieval text that chronicles events of the Kamakura Shogunate [Add to Longdo] |
| 御局 | [おつぼね, otsubone] (n) (arch) dignified lady-in-waiting who had her own private chamber or office at court or in the shogun's castle [Add to Longdo] |
| 御朱印;ご朱印 | [ごしゅいん, goshuin] (n) letter bearing the shogun's scarlet seal [Add to Longdo] |
| 御朱印船;ご朱印船 | [ごしゅいんせん, goshuinsen] (n) shogun-authorized trading vessel (authorised) [Add to Longdo] |
| 御前試合 | [ごぜんじあい, gozenjiai] (n) game (contest) held in the presence of a lord (daimyo, shogun) [Add to Longdo] |
| 御台 | [みだい, midai] (n) wife of a shogun or a highest-ranking nobleman [Add to Longdo] |
| 御台所 | [みだいどころ, midaidokoro] (n) wife of a shogun or a highest-ranking nobleman [Add to Longdo] |
| 御庭番衆 | [おにわばんしゅう, oniwabanshuu] (n) Oniwaban; the Shogunate's "guard of the inner garden" [Add to Longdo] |
| 御殿女中;ご殿女中 | [ごてんじょちゅう, gotenjochuu] (n) waiting woman in a shogun or daimyo's palace [Add to Longdo] |
| 御用部屋 | [ごようべや, goyoubeya] (n) room in Edo castle where the shogun's council of elders attended to governmental affairs [Add to Longdo] |
| 御領 | [ごりょう, goryou] (n) land under the control of the imperial household or the shogunate [Add to Longdo] |
| 公儀 | [こうぎ, kougi] (n, adj-no) imperial court; shogunate government; authorities; public affairs; official; government [Add to Longdo] |
| 公武合体 | [こうぶがったい, koubugattai] (n) shogunate marital union with the Imperial Family [Add to Longdo] |
| 公武合体論 | [こうぶがったいろん, koubugattairon] (n) (late Edo-period) idea of uniting the court and the shogunate [Add to Longdo] |
| 江戸幕府 | [えどばくふ, edobakufu] (n) Edo shogunate (1603-1867) [Add to Longdo] |
| 佐幕 | [さばく, sabaku] (n) adherence to the shogunate [Add to Longdo] |
| 佐幕派 | [さばくは, sabakuha] (n) supporters of the shogun [Add to Longdo] |
| 寺社奉行 | [じしゃぶぎょう, jishabugyou] (n) governmental position of the shogunate, responsible for the management of temples and shrines [Add to Longdo] |
| 執権 | [しっけん, shikken] (n) regent to the shogunate [Add to Longdo] |
